<ul><li>The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is planning to rebuild its codebase by migrating away from COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages.</li><li>The project, led by Steve Davis, lieutenant of Elon Musk, aims to replace the legacy COBOL infrastructure with a more modern replacement, such as Java, within a few months.</li><li>In 2017, the SSA planned to modernize its core systems, but the project was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a shift in focus to public-facing projects.</li><li>SSA's current infrastructure contains more than 60 million lines of COBOL code and outdated legacy coding languages, which have not been substantially updated since the 1980s.</li></ul>

Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase

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